Thanks to the folks at GBTV.com for their hospitality again tonight as I subbed for Glenn. Today’s topic: taking the culture back to its truly punk rock roots starting with deference to the original punk rock anthem, the Constitution.

Here’s a lesson for conservative artists, too: as Dez Dickerson told me (he played guitar for Prince), be judged on the merit of your work, not because of your ideology. Make your art beyond reproach. Going out and buying crappy art from someone just because they are a conservative is as disingenuous as what Hollywood is doing now. It’s not conservative to expect other conservatives to like your work because you are also a conservative. It’s hypocritical to feel this way because then you’re telling progressives to not judge you because of your politics while simultaneously asking conservatives to judge you because of your politics.

All the stuff I mentioned above? Rocks already. That they’re also conservatives is icing on the cake. It’s a progressive mentality to think you’re owed something. We are conservatives. We rage against the society that tells us everyone gets a trophy for participating. No they don’t. Some people are just bad. Some are really, really good. And that’s OK.

Dana Loesch

Dana Loesch is the author of "Hands Off My Gun” (October 2014, Hachette) and hosts her award-winning, daily syndicated radio show, "The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative" on Radio America 1-4pm ET. She also hosts “DANA” on The Blaze TV, weekdays at 6pm ET.

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Loesch shines the light of truth on everything from feminism to gun violence to abortion. She reveals the damage done by elitists who flat-out don’t get the lives and values of people in the heart of the country. And she asks commonsense questions such as: How can you be angry at Walmart if you’ve never shopped in one? How can you hate the police if you’ve never needed help from a cop? How can you attack Christians if you don’t have a single friend who goes to church?
In other words, how can you run a country you’ve never been to? And how much could our politics improve if Coastals would actually listen to their fellow Americans? This book is a rallying cry for anyone who wants our leaders to understand and respect the culture that made America exceptional in the first place.

Dana Loesch hosts her award-winning, nationally syndicated daily radio show, The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative from Dallas, Texas where she also hosts “Dana” on The Blaze television network. Dana appears regularly on Fox News, ABC, CNN, among others, and has guest co-hosted “The View.” She describes herself as a “conservatarian.”